.TH NHRP 8 "24 January 2017" "Quagga NHRP daemon" "Version 1.1"
.SH NAME
nhrpd \- a Next Hop Routing Protocol routing engine for use with Quagga routing software.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B nhrpd
[
.B \-dhv
] [
.B \-f
.I config-file
] [
.B \-i
.I pid-file
] [
.B \-P
.I port-number
] [
.B \-A
.I vty-address
] [
.B \-u
.I user
] [
.B \-g
.I group
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B nhrpd
is a routing component that works with the
.B Quagga
routing engine.
.SH OPTIONS
Options available for the
.B nhrpd
command:
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-daemon\fR
Runs in daemon mode, forking and exiting from tty.
.TP
\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-config-file \fR\fIconfig-file\fR
Specifies the config file to use for startup. If not specified this
option will likely default to \fB\fI/usr/local/etc/nhrpd.conf\fR.
.TP
\fB\-g\fR, \fB\-\-group \fR\fIgroup\fR
Specify the group to run as. Default is \fIquagga\fR.
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
A brief message.
.TP
\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-pid_file \fR\fIpid-file\fR
When nhrpd starts its process identifier is written to
\fB\fIpid-file\fR.  The init system uses the recorded PID to stop or
restart nhrpd.  The likely default is \fB\fI/var/run/nhrpd.pid\fR.
.TP
\fB\-P\fR, \fB\-\-vty_port \fR\fIport-number\fR
Specify the port that the nhrpd VTY will listen on. This defaults to
2608, as specified in \fB\fI/etc/services\fR.
.TP
\fB\-A\fR, \fB\-\-vty_addr \fR\fIvty-address\fR
Specify the address that the nhrpd VTY will listen on. Default is all
interfaces.
.TP
\fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-user \fR\fIuser\fR
Specify the user to run as. Default is \fIquagga\fR.
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
Print the version and exit.
.SH FILES
.TP
.BI /usr/local/sbin/nhrpd
The default location of the
.B nhrpd
binary.
.TP
.BI /usr/local/etc/nhrpd.conf
The default location of the
.B nhrpd
config file.
.TP
.BI $(PWD)/nhrpd.log
If the
.B nhrpd
process is config'd to output logs to a file, then you will find this
file in the directory where you started \fBnhrpd\fR.
.SH WARNING
This man page is intended to be a quick reference for command line
options. The definitive document is the Info file \fBQuagga\fR.
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
The nhrpd process may log to standard output, to a VTY, to a log
file, or through syslog to the system logs. \fBnhrpd\fR supports many
debugging options, see the Info file, or the source for details.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR bgpd (8),
.BR ripd (8),
.BR ripngd (8),
.BR ospfd (8),
.BR ospf6d (8),
.BR zebra (8),
.BR vtysh (1)

.B nhrpd
eats bugs for breakfast. If you have food for the maintainers try
.BI http://bugzilla.quagga.net
.SH AUTHORS
Timo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi>
